I honestly just looked at all the horror in the world and decided that if a god does exist, they don’t deserve my worship.
Either they are omnipotent and evil, in which case there’s no guarantee listening to them will end well for me anyways, or they’re good and not even close to omnipotent, in which case they aren’t using what power they have effectively enough for me to support them.
For real, it’s wack even if you don’t know anything about history which is even more wack in everything involving the church.
I was already an atheist when my mom enrolled me in a Catholic private school (our local public school district was more like a delinquent holding facility). We had Bible class which obviously meant we had to read it. That shit is wild. I was enthralled by the story where the daughters get their father drunk then rape him in order to have babies. Teen me was like “this shit is metal as fuck”. Still atheist but I appreciate the Bible’s entertainment value.
Also an atheist, but was recently in a church for a non-religious event. I got bored waiting for it to start, so I cracked up one of the bibles there to a random page. The first thing I saw was a passage about how if a man’s son is disobedient and doesn’t get his act together, the man is allowed to kill his son by stoning him to death. My immediate reaction was along the lines of “jfc they let kids read this shit?” You could make a wicked drinking game out of all the fucked up shit you can find in there.
I’m an atheist exchristian and got obsessed with the Bible while deconstructing and thoroughly read it (a few times). You probably don’t realize how right you are. It’s not just here and there either, it keeps coming, chapter after chapter, verse after verse. You find yourself asking again and again “How does anyone get moral lessons out of this?”
At one point god tells his favorite human “hey, go sacrifice your only son as a burnt offering to me. The son I made you wait until you were old to have.” God lets the guy (Abraham) get all the way to the altar, knife in hand before saying “Woah. Holy shit! You were really going to do it!”
Oh and god makes bears murder children because the children made fun of a bald man. God destroys a good man’s life on a bet with Satan. It goes on and on and on.
I like the killcount of Satan compared to God. Who’s the evil motherfucker now? XD
Yep. He starts out strong with killing fucking everyone but Noah after the first run of humanity pissed him off. 🤣
Yahweh also enjoys people dashing infants on rocks.
Leviticus right? If it makes you feel any better someone told me that it was never actually followed. It was a complicated argument and I don’t know enough about the history to judge it. So on the bright side is if they were right it didn’t kill that many kids? I know, not much of a bright side.
For me is when I started reading other books that weren’t the Bible or related to it. When I left the tiny world of Evangelical Christianity, is when I realized the wide world contradicted all the bullshit I was fed.
I thought about it in high school, figured it was dumb. There were outside influences of course.
I visited the Vatican.
I’m not Christian because I’ve seen for myself how toxic the belief system makes people. I believe it’s the root cause of a large amount of mental illness in the U.S.
Logic for me.
Got beaten pretty badly by a counselor at Jesus camp, lost my faith. Decided that I was just a sinner but would return one day. Kept seeing more and more evidence against it being true. Decided I would ignore the issue. Heard Jeff Sessions explain how he was allowed to throw children into a concentration camp because of the bible. Decided that the question was not academic, that if I believed or not had to be faced and dealt with.
